Tour Scotland Travel Video Cadogan Window St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church Birnam Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Cadogan memorial stained glass window in St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church on ancestry visit to the village of Birnam, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. William Charles Gerald was the 7th Earl of Cadogan.He was born 13 February 1914 and died on 4 July 1997. He was a British peer and professional soldier. He was the eldest son of Gerald Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan and his wife Lilian Cadogan. He was educated at Eton College, an all boys public boarding school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Cadogan joined the Army and rose to the rank of captain in the Coldstream Guards. Cadogan married twice; firstly, on 11 June 1936 the Hon. Primrose Lilian Yarde Buller, daughter of John Reginald Lopes Yarde Buller, 3rd Baron Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton and secondly Cecilia Margaret Hamilton Wedderburn, daughter of Lt Col. Henry Kellerman Hamilton Wedderburn, on 13 January 1961. With his first wife he had four children, the eldest son of whom was his heir Charles Gerald John Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan. Of Welsh origin, the family name was spelled Cadwgan until the early 15th century.

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